Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android games that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.
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Games
Oceanhorn ™
Android Police coverage: Oceanhorn, a Zelda-inspired premium action adventure game, sets sail for the Play Store
Oceanhorn takes pretty much all of its inspiration from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series. But since we're closer to a Ross Perot presidency than we are a real Zelda game on Android, it's hard to object to this one. Charming 3D graphics, solid action-adventure gameplay, and an expansive world of islands and dungeons are some of the selling points, in addition to full controller and Android TV compatibility. It's free to download with a $5.49 promotional price for the full game.
You wake up and find a letter from your father. He is gone… The only lead is his old notebook and a mysterious necklace. What happened? Explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets. Fight monsters, learn to use magic and discover ancient treasures which will help you on your quest. Use all your wits and skill to unravel the mysteries of ancient kingdom Arcadia and sea monster Oceanhorn.
1979 Revolution: Black Friday
Android Police coverage: 1979 Revolution: Black Friday now available on the Google Play Store
Mobile games (and video games in general) that cover real topics in a sober way are rare. Black Friday is a point-and-click adventure story that takes place during the 1979 Iranian revolution. The historical fiction story asks for crucial choices from the player to guide the progress of a photojournalist covering the revolution and its aftermath. A few photography segments (sort of like a more realistic Pokémon Snap) break things up. Note that the $5 game requires an octa-core processor to run.
Based on real stories from Iran between 1978-1981. In this cinematic adventure game you navigate this momentous revolution with only two weapons: your camera and your morality. You play as Reza, a photojournalist, where you get caught up by two opposing sides of the revolution. The fates of those around you hinge on the consequences of your choices. Unlike anything you’ve played before, 1979 Revolution immerses players into a moving and engaging experience where a documentary and a game come together.
Retro City Rampage DX
Android Police coverage: Steam favorite Retro City Rampage DX blends GTA crime sprees with NES-style graphics and minigames
Retro City Rampage is essentially an unofficial "de-make" of Grand Theft Auto, bringing the open-world crime gameplay into just two dimensions. What it lacks in polygons it makes up for in humor and style: references and mini-games harken back to the NES and general 80s and 90s culture at every turn. The game was a hit on Steam, and the Android version supports controllers and Android TV for just five bucks.
Retro City Rampage reimagines the open world crime genre like it's 1989. Rampage the city, steal cars, or play over 60 story mode missions. This remastered pop culture send-up features a full Story Mode of open world missions, along with Arcade Challenges for quick pick-up-and-play action. Explore the city by foot or by car, and discover minigames, customizations, collectibles, special guest stars, and more.
Bully: Anniversary Edition
Android Police coverage: Rockstar's Bully: Anniversary Edition now available for Android, costs $6.99 on the Play Store
Bully, originally released for the PlayStation 2 way back in 2006, was something of a cornerstone for Rockstar's non-GTA portfolio. Equal parts South Park and Clockwork Orange, the story puts you in the shoes of a 15-year-old malcontent. The gameplay never leaves the somewhat sensationalized world of a WASPy prep school, but biting humor and creative minigames make the whole package something special. The Android version is $7, and despite the subject matter it is decidedly not for kids.
The Rockstar Games tradition of groundbreaking, original gameplay and humorous tongue-in-cheek storytelling invades the schoolyard in Bully: Anniversary Edition. As mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins you’ll navigate the social hierarchy of the corrupt and crumbling prep school, Bullworth Academy. Stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks, win or lose the girl and survive a year in the worst school around.
Apollo Justice Ace Attorney
Android Police coverage: [No Objections] Capcom favorite Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney lands in the Play Store for $16
The first of Capcom's Ace Attorney series to come to Android is actually the fourth of the Nintendo DS games to be released - the original trilogy got an iPhone version, but no Play Store release. Apollo Justice uses pretty much the same gameplay, a mix of courtroom drama visual novel and hidden object investigation segments. The humor is over-the-top in typical anime style. Android players get shafted by the price structure, too: unlike the episodic iOS version, you'll have to buy all four chapters at once for $16. OBJECTION.
Star as rookie defense attorney, Apollo Justice, as he visits crime scenes, questions key witnesses and collects vital evidence before stepping into the courtroom to prove his clients’ innocence.
- All-new high-resolution graphics
- A new touch screen interface
- Interactive forensic testing mini-games that allow players to reveal hidden clues by dusting for prints, testing for traces of blood, and other exciting techniques.
- Two distinct gameplay segments:
- Investigation phase – survey crime scenes, interview witnesses and gather forensic evidence that will be used in court
- Trial phase – present findings from the investigation to support your case, listen to testimonies and examine witnesses
Dawn of Titans
Android Police coverage: After a long testing period, Dawn of Titans (from the dev behind CSR Racing) is available to everyone in the Play Store
Dawn of Titans is an ambitious mobile strategy game that adopts full desktop-style 3D graphics to illustrate its mythical battles. Armies are made up of units of puny humans and individual colossal titans, and unlike many strategy games on the Play Store, the game features both a singleplayer campaign and multiplayer online battles. That said, Dawn of Titans does bow to the mobile gods in at least one aspect: it's free with in-app purchases that go up to an obscene $300.
The BEST graphics on mobile – You’ve never seen a game like this before. Control COLOSSAL TITANS and THOUSANDS OF WARRIORS in STUNNING 3D wars. CAPTURE enemy lands, grow your army, and come to fight, because in Dawn of Titans you either GO BIG or you GO HOME. Join your friends and PLAY FOR FREE. In the most massive ACTION-STRATEGY game on mobile.
Hero Generations
Hero Generations attempts to mix PRG elements with grid-based strategy games like Civilization or Advance Wars. But it also expands the basic grid gameplay with more varied elements in a fantasy setting, like crafting, base-building, finding a spouse and raising a family before your roguelike permadeath. Each turn represents a year in your character's life, so choose carefully. The cartoon art is charming, and while it's a little pricey at $5, there are no in-app purchases.
Hero Generations is an innovative and award-winning Roguelike/4X Strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. It’s been called “the offspring of Sid Meier's Civilization, Jason Rohrer's Passage, and The Legend of Zelda." Explore, find a mate, build a home, and raise a child before you die to keep your legacy going. Hero Generations is simple yet deep: 4X Strategy on the individual level. Each turn is a meaningful choice, without the tedious micromanagement.
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Legends of Callasia is a strategy game with Risk-ish elements, but a setting that's more comfy with elves and dwarves. Players try to expand their kingdoms across a map by creating units and engaging with their foes in a way that will be familiar to anyone who's tried the board game, but collectible cards and hero units can be played to shift events and gain a strategic advantage. The game has both single and multiplayer maps with up to 8 combatants at a time. The full game is $15 (same as the Steam version) with an optional $8 expansion.
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The Great Callasian War rages across the lands. Choose a faction and awaken the legendary heroes to lead your armies and destroy enemy forces. Build cities, conquer kingdoms, and form or break alliances on tabletop-style maps with bonus cards that can turn the tide of battle. Follow the story of the factions in single-player campaign missions, or test friendships in online multiplayer with an original simultaneous turn-based system that adds deep strategic elements in predicting other players’ moves.
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Shadow Bug
Shadow Bug is a whimsical take on the action-platformer. You play an animate dot with some ninja weapons, slicing through Lovecraftian monsters with tap-and-swipe gestures. The monsters themselves are more like stepping stones than obstacles, allowing you to zip around the level like a fantasy martial artist. The silhouetted foreground graphics are bit dull, but they offset the hand-painted backgrounds nicely. Shadow Bug is free with IAP that goes up to $22, which kind of sucks, because the $4 iOS version doesn't have any.
You are the overpowered ninja hero Shadow Bug. Save your home forest from the evil factory by slicing monsters to pieces. TAP ON THE MONSTER. Leap, slash, splash. One finger is all you need. Become the ultimate ninja and adventure through beautiful and twisted landscapes full of action and adventure.
- Hand crafted levels filled with action, exploration and puzzles.
- Memorable boss fights.
- Mesmerizing art with picturesque parallax backgrounds and mystical silhouettes.
- Breathtaking soundscape with an epic soundtrack and immersive sound effects.
- Leaderboards for speedrunning levels.
- A completely new take on platformer games.
TIME LOCKER - Shooter
If you've played the indie PC game Super Hot, imagine the same concept made into a top-down shooter. In Time Locker, the game's playing field, enemies, and bullets all freeze when you move your finger off the screen, only resuming once you start to move again. It makes for an interesting mix of frantic screen-filling madness and slow, methodical choices. Graphics are simple polygons, and power-ups allow for more powerful shooting in the simple system. It's free with a $3.50 in-app purchase for a coin booster.
"If you stop, Time stops" TimeLocker. Insanely fun arcade game where when YOU stop, so does time. The speed of time in the game is controlled by the speed of your finger. Play with lots of different characters all with different abilities, and see how long you can survive in a world with lots of different types of animals that all move differently.
Qurius
In Qurius, you are the benevolent god of a tiny world, discovering its secrets and helping its little polygonal people. You're not a weather god, though, because the weather in the game world mirrors real-world weather data for your location. The gameplay revolves around clearing away mystical sludge, building up shamanic shrines, and discovering new people and creatures. It's an interesting little distraction, though those looking for challenge or endgame might be put off. In-app purchases go up to almost $20.
Your weather is magic. Harvest, collect and globally share magic gems made from your real, live weather conditions. Save a mysterious world from imminent destruction. Only you can return it to its former glory. Discover insanely cute creatures, amazing stone buildings and magic portals to other worlds. Qurius is a new type of game unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, unlocking the hidden power of real time local weather and global environment data. Come explore the mystery and discover the hidden connections.
The Quest - Isles of Ice&Fire
The Quest, a loving throwback to the days of 2.5D fantasy RPGs RPGs from the 90s, hit the Play Store back in November. This stand-alone expansion doesn't require the original game, but it ties into it if you happen to have it installed. It's more pixelated fantasy goodness in a Tolkien-style world, at half the price of the full game - if you were on the fence for The Quest, give Isles of Ice & Fire a try before downloading the full version.
The Quest - Islands of Ice and Fire is an expansion to The Quest, a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement and turn based combat. After enabling the expansion, you can continue to play The Quest with your existing character(s) to explore new areas and quests. However, if you don't have The Quest, you can also play the expansion as a standalone game.
Defend Your Turf: Street Fight
The tiny identical combatants in Defend Your Turf look a lot like old-school Pokémon avatars, but the gameplay is more like a strategic take on Streets of Rage. You manage a group of pixelated gangbangers, splitting them up and positioning them ideally to defeat the nearly-identical rival gang. Cover, weapons, and environmental hazers keep the stages interesting. Defend Your Turf is free with a $3 ad-free option.
In a small town somewhere on earth, a bunch of guys dressed in blue hate another bunch of guys dressed in red. Use your brain as well as your fingers to guide red to absolute victory. You'll need skill, you'll need cunning. You'll need to drop cars on people's heads. Defend Your Turf is a genre-bending game - part beat 'em up, part real-time strategy and created specifically for touch screen devices.
Conduct THIS!
Normally trains conductors have automated crossing barriers to keep them from hitting traffic, and railway passengers are expected to get to the correct station on their own. Conductors in Conduct THIS are a bit more hands-on: players are in control of everything, making sure rail lines, switches, road crossings, and passengers all run smoothly. When multiple lines and trains are introduced to the low-poly world, things get more complex in a hurry. In-app purchases (including a $5 option to remove ads) go up to ten bucks.
Conduct THIS. Is an addictive game of explosive railway action that will challenge your inner conductor. Set in a stunning world, with incredibly simple controls you race against time to bring passengers safely to their destination by commanding trains, switching tracks and avoiding collisions in increasingly challenging action-puzzles. As you progress you unlock new trains, gain access to new beautiful and mysterious regions and earn awards.
Eternal Maze Puzzle Adventure
If M. Night Shyamalan's Signs was reimagined as an SNES game, it might look like this one. You play a farmer who gets lost in the maze of his own corn, necessitating a top-down adventure to escape. Gameplay is somewhere between Zelda and Pac-Man thanks to the maze-based levels, inventory puzzles, and compulsory exploration. The story plays out with the aid of a few monsters and a lot of exposition. It's $2 with no in-app purchases.
Inspired by crop circles, Eternal Maze is a puzzle adventure game about a farmer who is trapped in corn mazes. Find the map, find the monoliths, avoid the dogs and survive to escape from the mazes. A leading investigator in the field of contacts with the alien civilisations, Dr Andrew Mystyngton found something in common among the people who have lived all around world in different times.
Cubway
Cubway is something of a mix between a puzzler and a platformer. There's only one plane to travel along, and you can only go forwards, not backwards. Advancing to the next level requires patient progression to see how the monochromatic obstacles react to your presence. It's a slow and methodical take on the zen game, and the stark light-and-dark graphics are interesting in an ethereal way - backgrounds are atmospheric still photos, foregrounds are basic geometric shapes. Cubway is free with no in-app purchases.
Guide the cube through the long way full of dangers and difficulties, visit many interesting and mysterious places. Mechanics of the game are concentrated around different types of interaction with the obstacles. Some of them are: finding correct spot to overcome the obstacles, blowing them, correct timing of your movement, avoiding dangers, changing your movement directions by the switchers and many more.
Tower Of The Wizard
Tower of the Wizard is one of those games that slavishly attempts to replicate an older style, in this case the monochromatic low-res look of Game Boy platformers from the early 1990s. Gameplay takes after Castlevania quite a bit, with a variety of enemies, a large, sprawling map, and big dramatic bosses. It's free with no in-app purchases, but keep in mind that at the moment it's in "unreleased" form (beta).
The mad Wizard in his tower has sent his minions to terrorize the countryside. With the army away in foreign lands, a lone stranger enters the Wizard's tower to end his menace. You play as a lone adventurer who seeks to put an end to the threat of the mad wizard. Navigate a challenging dungeon, filled with traps and foes. Use the map that you will pick up early on in order to find various equipment, and use them in turn to traverse the myriad obstacles the tower presents to you.
Retro Winter Sports 1986
Speaking of retro games, this one goes back even further. Retro Winter Sports 1986 combines an Atari aesthetic with a few stylistic choices from movies like Ski School. A collection of minimalist Winter Olympic events are presented in super-simple fashion (is this the first time a curling game has ever been featured on the site?). Two dollars with no in-app purchases grant access to curling, bobsledding, speed skating, slalom, ski jump, and the biathlon.
Do you remember the good old home computer sports games? Relive your youth in this beautiful pixelated remake of the evergreens. Participate in the 1986 winter sports tournament and compete against other world-class athletes for international recognition. Six different, action-packed events await you in a beautiful retro-style winter setting. Choose the country you want to represent from 12 different nations.
The Station
The Station is mostly a text-based adventure, though it's infrequently supported by a few illustrative graphics. You play a stranded passenger on a space station who's suffering from that age-old narrative device, amnesia. Players have to navigate the station to discover their fate, making some basic choices and solving puzzles (including some linux-based brain-teasers) to get to the end of the story.
You’re in space. But why? And how did you get there? “The Station” is an interactive sci-fi novella set in turbulent times, which the protagonist has a hard time remembering. It's an orbital rabbit hole tale developed by gold extra with Causa Creations' support. Text by Georg Hobmeier and Frances d’Ath, Code by Patrick Borgeat, Sound by Juan A. Romero.
Catch the Bus
Most runner games have whimsical premises designed to delight and amuse you. In Catch the Bus, your job is to catch the titular bus, which at least has the positive aspect of being entirely relatable to anyone who's ever depended on one for a commute. The pace is fast without being unmanageable, and the way the bus passengers mock you for ceaselessly running and jumping is amusing in a mean-spirited way. City-themed environments are varied and the game offers both timed and endless modes. Though the Play Store says it has IAP, I found only ads.
Has it ever happened to you that you are so eager to get home but you're on the other side of the street and the only bus you can take has just departed from the stop? In this case there is only one thing you can do: RUN. And it's not gonna be easy… To reach the next bus stop you'll have to avoid café tables, phone booths, hipsters, other strange people and so much more...
Solitairica
Here's a unique one for you: a mashup of roguelike combat games and... solitaire. Yeah, really. The idea is that you're playing against enemies who control the deck that you're trying to whittle down with classic solitaire matching gameplay. (So I guess technically you're not playing alone?) It's similar to a single-player version of combat games like Hearthstone, but those roguelike elements mean that failure has a high price. It's free with IAP that doesn't go above $4.
Solitairica takes RPG combat and challenging rogue-like progression to a fresh new place—the world of solitaire. Gather your weapons and prepare to battle the armies of Stuck. In the land of Myriodd, all of the hearts have been stolen by the horrible Emperor Stuck, and you are the latest warrior brave enough to try to return them, saving the world from total heartless destruction.
Creature Battle Lab
Imagine if Spore and Digimon had a bastard child (or better yet, imagine if I could come of with a better analogy). That's basically Creature Battle Lab, where you assemble tiny critters who then duke it out in miniature arenas. It's a lot like a more dynamic version of Custom Robo, except you're a genetic engineer instead of a robot-wrangler. The level of customization in the creatures you can create is truly impressive. This one's free with IAP that maxes out at $6.
Enter the world of Creature Battle Lab and experience mad science and crazy fun. Study with Professor Helix and discover the art of genetic creature splicing. Mix up molecules and experiment with DNA to create the ultimate team of fearsome/cute/weird battling creatures. Take part in intense real time battles across a number of themed arenas. Become the No.1 ranked creature battler on the professional inter-lab science circuit.
Symmetria: Path to Perfection
Symmetria tasks players with making perfectly symmetrical designs on a grid-based stage. It seems simple enough at first, but as the designs expand to more complex combinations of fills and blanks, you have to get your mind in the right mood to mirror every stage given to you. Once multiple colors are introduced things begin to get truly hectic. A single-device multiplayer mode is also included. Symmetria is free with a $3 in-app purchase to remove the advertising.
Symmetria is a fast-paced puzzle game about symmetry. A simple yet challenging exercise for perfectionist minds. Why did we create Symmetria? There’s a little itch lurking inside all of us. A little itch that makes us do weird things. Weird things like… avoiding to step on floor tile lines, eating M&Ms in strict color order or becoming mad because that stupid text box won’t align pixel-perfectly. And… that little itch just LOVES symmetry.
Color Glide
Color Glide is an expanded form of the old sliding block puzzle - think of those ice and boulder rooms in the old Zelda and Pokémon games. With a laser focus on movement and blocking, this game delivers a ton of variation on a simple theme, tasking players with more devilish puzzles as the game advances through portals and instant-death squares. Beating the "par" number of slides unlocks more levels. The game is free with a $1 in-app purchase to remove ads, and up to $5 for faster unlocks.
◉ Glide colorful blocks across the screen
◉ Create new and beautiful colors
◉ Challenge your brain to beat par
◉ Solve simplistic puzzles
◉ Enjoy the beautiful and atmospheric design
◉ Simple & unique, unlike anything seen before
◉ Play around with Death, Warp, & Frozen blocks
Hop Hop Hop Underwater
Hop Hop Hop Underwater is basically Flappy Bird with another dimension (well, sort of): in addition to hops and gravity, players will have to perform dives into the water and deal with buoyancy as they try to make it past the various obstacles. It's a clever twist on a somewhat tired formula. Multiple skins can be unlocked, and a single $2 in-app purchase gets rid of ads.
Hop above and under the water. Avoid dangerous monsters and eat mushrooms. Unlock more than 40 funny skins. How far can you go?
Stickman Base Jumper 2
BASE jumping (it's an acronym, developers, you have to capitalize it) is not for the faint of heart. But if you'd like some of the daredevil thrill of jumping off buildings without the broken bones or trespassing charges, you can pretend with this little casual game. Your tiny avatar, complete with itty-bitty GoPro camera, has to land on specific targets and avoid some unlikely obstacles to win. And also live. A single $1 in-app purchase removes advertising and unlocks all levels.
Pack your parachute and jump down the highest buildings in the world and experience the amazing feeling of Stickman Base Jumper 2. Estimate your run up and perfectly time your jump off to glide through the air, perform insane proximity flights and open your parachute in the very last moment before you crash bone breaking into the ground.
METANOIA
There seems to be a lot of these meta communication games coming out. This one is a horror story - you're talking to an isolated character who encounters general spookiness, and you answer the text messages to progress the story. New alerts come in on a regular basis in the form of message notifications. The game is $2 with no in-app purchases.
METANOIA is an incredibly thrilling interactive story which cannot be told without your help. For Sam, you are the only contact outside of the evacuated area. Live up to the trust placed in you and guide Sam through the post-apocalyptic adventure in real-time. Make your choices carefully, as they will have severe consequences on the course of the game. METANOIA's interface is based on a messenger app representing your connection to Sam.
Lifeline: Halfway to Infinity
Another week, another Lifeline game. This one uses the same text message format and notification-based progress as all the others. I'm having a hard time keeping track of them to be perfectly honest - the description says that the protagonist of this one fell into a black hole, but can somehow still communicate with you. (That's not how black holes work.) It's $2 with no in-app purchases.
Taylor's journey continues. Deep in the isolated vacuum of space, trapped in orbit around a strange black hole, our intrepid astronaut must once again reach out for a lifeline - YOU. Inside the spaceship Veridian, Taylor thought it was time for some hard-earned quiet solitude and a little R&R, but a very unexpected guest has other plans… The story unfolds in real-time, and every decision you make shapes the course of the story. Taylor's life, the fate of humanity, and time itself are in your hands. No pressure.
Radiation Island
Radiation Island is the kind of game you see quite a lot on Steam Greenlight: an open world, first-person affair with crafting elements and zombies. There's a lot of Far Cry and Day Z DNA in the premise, but not the execution. To be blunt, the game itself looks like an alpha, with graphics that are poorly-optimized for mobile and a setup that's not sure if it wants to be action or horror. On the plus side, $3 with no in-app purchases gets you into the multiplayer servers.
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises. Use everything you find to survive it and solve its puzzle to get back to the real world. Follow your own path in an environment of breathtaking beauty and gigantic scope.
Fast Food Rampage
I always thought there was something vaguely sinister about Ronald McDonald and Jack In The Box. The developer of Fast Food Rampage would seem to agree: this game has a fast food mascot murdering people with cheap meals and condiments. It's simple enough in a Postal kind of way, with upgraded weapons and outfits offering incentives to progress. Fast Food Rampage is free with in-app purchases for currency that go up to $12.
A hilarious arcade shooter about blasting people with junk food until they explode. It’s delicious.
- Shoot them with ballistic hamburgers.
- Explode them with milkshake grenades.
- Melt them with your sweet soda Jet Pack.
- Rain molten apple pies down upon them.
- Run them down in you Mime Car.
It’s what they deserve for trying to better themselves.
Draw a circle
This minimal puzzle game is all about math. But practical math, with lots of shapes and colors, not the boring kind. Players have a limited amount of space to draw a circle and must match the total surface area of the circles in the background. It's an interesting concept that should especially appeal to those who are gifted with an innate ability to estimate space. It's free, but keep in mind it's in unreleased beta at the moment.
New minimalist game developed by JoySpace, published by Lemon Jam Studio. A unique style with addictive and challenging gameplay. You will love it. All you have to do is, drag a circle to match the areas combined. Easy right?
- Minimalist style
- Easy to play but hard to master
- Very challenging
Glitch Tank
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Bomb Hunters
You wouldn't think that bomb defusal and Frogger elements would make a good combination, but the developers of Bomb Hunters beg to differ. Players have to hunt through the maze-like stages for bombs to disarm, while simultaneously grabbing coins and avoiding traffic. Get hit, or let one of the bomb timers count down to zero, and it's all over. It's an interesting premise, to be sure. The game is free with in-app purchases that go up to twenty bucks.
It's get-your-brown-pants, boom-bang bomb hunting time. Grab a pair of pliers and keep your cool. You're about to experience the life of a bomb defusal expert. Always racing against a ticking time. Always wondering if it's the red wire or the blue one. Which gets easy anyway. After a couple of successful bomb defusals, right? Not in Bomb Hunters. The bombs are spread out on a battlefield with enemy snipers and grenadiers guarding the bombs, obstacles blocking the way and heavy-traffic roads that need to be crossed.
Super Pixel Heroes
Super Pixel Heroes is a basic one-on-one fighter with a voxel (not pixel!) style. Aside from the odd combination of visuals and 2D fighter mechanics, the developers seem to be banking on recognizable licensed characters from Reliance films, like a big monkey and those robots from that one Hugh Jackson movie. IAP for randomized character unlocks goes up to $19.
Fight as King Kong, epic legends Atom, Zeus from Real Steel and The Jungle Book heroes in this endless pixel smashing adventure. Avoid countless obstacles, discover unique hero abilities, collect rare characters and go on an endless win streak to become the greatest arcade champion. Unravel legendary heroes with super-cool abilities and exciting action moves to experience crazy comical action. Unlock exciting and funky characters like Dinosaurs, The Jungle Book heroes, Zombies, Sci-fi Real Steel Movie Robots and more.
Busted Brakes
Busted Breaks is a simple endless runner (or driver, what ever) with a single-tap control setup that steers an out-of-control car left or right. All one has to do is avoid the other vehicles and obstacles. That said, it's hard to recommend this one - the over-the-top voice over and repetitive music are annoying, discouraging the amount of play it takes to unlock new vehicles with coins. In-app purchases that go up to $18 don't help; this simple game just doesn't justify them.
Your brakes are busted. Argh, It's bad news. Try to drive through the city without hitting buildings and vehicles. Although if you are tank driver, why not? Collect coins, gems and many other things to expand your garage. You can unlock more than 20 cars and vehicles and complete a lot of quests.
- Easy one-tap controls and quick game sessions.
- 23 unique vehicles (cars, bikes, helicopters etc).
- Dynamically change environment: day-night, weather conditions.
- 5 unique quests per car (115 in total), 40 global achievements and auto-generated tasks.
32 secs
32 secs is a timer-based runner with lanes and futuristic motorcycles that are totally not anything like the bikes from Tron, no, not even a little bit. 3D graphics are bright and flashy, but the actual sense of speed is somewhat lacking, and the basic lane-switching gameplay isn't anything that we haven't seen before. IAP goes up to $50.
As the most reliable and precise transporter of the future, your task is no less than impossible. You must deliver a TOP SECRET package in time or the world will crumble. So jump onto your super motorcycle and get a use of your inhuman driving skills in an insanely high-speed oriented experience. Overtake traffic, avoid crashes, activate power-ups and reach your destination while climbing on top of the leaderboards. Time is running out, so make it count.
Football Unleashed 17 JC
Jamaal Charles presents this Jamaal Charles football game, brought to you by Jamaal Charles. It's essentially a collection of football-themed minigames. In-app purchases go up to 50 bucks. Jamaal Charles.
Score extreme TOUCHDOWNS with the ultimate 5-on-5 American Football game, Football Unleashed 17 with 4x Pro Bowl Player Jamaal Charles. Whether you want to blitz your opponents with GAMECHANGERS, scout new talent with PLAYER DRAFT or hone your skills with practice sessions, you can play the perfect season with Football Unleashed 17. Kansas RB legend Jamaal Charles will be your star coach keeping an eye on your passes, plays and sacking skills.
Tiny Rails
This management sim is all about building and maintaining a train line, as if you were a pixelated Vanderbilt. Picking your route and expanding your train with specialized cars will get you bonuses that make timers come down. There's an interesting idle element to the game - trains can travel to new hubs while the game is offline, for example - but $100 IAP means this one will grind to a halt eventually, unless you start paying real money.
Set out on adventure in Tiny Titan's immersive, world-spanning train game Tiny Rails. Your grandfather has handed down his train company and it's up to you to expand your modest engine into a multi-car masterpiece. Upgrade and customize your train while unlocking new stations, delivering passengers and trading supplies all around the world. Become a railroad tycoon, or sit back and relax while you watch your train travel day and night through unique environments with weather and climate changes.
Premium RPG Fairy Elements
Kemco's latest old-fashioned RPG uses the familiar 16-bit-style setup to tell a story about... well, fairies, according to the title. The story is really about a group of time-traveling knights and the various anime-inspired monsters and bosses they have to kill in turn-based fashion. Upgrades and special attacks use some novel RPG systems, but if you're a fan of Kemco's previous games, you'll probably feel at home here too. The "premium" version is $5 but still has $100 IAP, though there's a free version available too.
Purchase the Premium Edition and receive 1000 in-app points as a bonus. What awaits at the end of an adventure that spans over 200 years? Yamato is a royal knight, fighting to protect the peace of his kingdom. His sword is imbued with the mysterious power of Material. Along with his attendant, a female knight called Orka, he saved his kingdom from a crisis. However, in the battle, he was somehow transported to a world 200 years in the future.
1943 Deadly Desert Premium
The latest strategy game from Handy Apps is all about the North African campaign in WWII. The game uses a hexagonal grid for its turn-based battles, which should feel familiar to fans of the genre. A full historical single-player campaign is periodically updated with new content, and online multiplayer and local "hot potato" single-device battles are supported. This premium version is $3 but unfortunately comes with $100 in-app purchases - if you'd rather skip the pretense, there's also a free edition.
Action-packed World War 2 battles for the desert territories await you. Your ingenuity and leadership skills as general will determine victory or defeat. Will you survive the toughest fight in history? This is the decisive World War II battle between the Allied forces and the Axis powers. Choose your path and lead your army to victory. The right war strategy is the key to the ultimate victory. Issue orders to your officers on the battlefield. They’ll motivate, inspire and strengthen the troops assigned to their command.
Stick Cricket Super League
As an American, I know less about cricket than I do about ancient Egyptian algebra. So I confess, I really have no idea what's going on in these sporty mini-games - it's like a home run derby with more crumpets, right? Players can customize their team and recruit new pros to get even better at... whatever it is that cricket players do. Graphics are cartoony and colorful, but don't do anything to hide the $100 in-app purchases.
Smash sixes. Sign superstars. Captain your team to global Super League glory in the world's most popular cricket game, Stick Cricket. Take full control of your career - and your team - as a top flight franchise player. Stick Cricket Super League offers you the chance to: Create and customise your character, before heading out onto the field. Choose from a range of hair styles and accessories. Cities from all over the world are competing in the Stick Cricket Super League. Take your favourite team to the top.
Devilian
Gamevil's latest IAP grind-fest is basically a ripoff of Diablo. How much of a ripoff? Well, it has "devil" right in the title. Maybe that isn't entirely fair: In addition to the top-down dungeon crawler mode, there's also a focus on co-op and player-versus-player battles - the better to inspire those one-upping in-app purchases, of course. The graphics and anime-inspired character designs at least look good.
Hack and slash through endless enemy hordes in your journey of vengeance. Use your Devilian power to hunt down monsters and foes in this tragic story. The epic battle begins now.
- Play in dual Devilian Mode for tremendous power and skills
- Execute disastrous attack combos to inflict maximum damage
- Collect and upgrade devastating weapons
- Progress and enhance your battle craft
- Become stronger by coordinating with allies in co-op mode
- Experience Tag Match PvP
- Brawl in furious raids
Durango Limited Beta
Durango is an RPG that mixes open world elements and crafting with an old-fashioned top-down perspective. It takes place in a fascinating setting more than a little reminiscent of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. The 2.5D graphics (3D characters, hand-painted backgrounds) are gorgeous, but keep in mind that the game is in a limited beta test at the moment. Keys are required, and you can request one at this address. Keep an eye out for a more general release.
Durango is a Pioneering Open-world MMORPG in which players from modern ages are sent on a warp to unknown world in the prehistoric era, where dinosaurs and natural wildness are alive; the player is challenged to survive and team up with other players. The game's Open-world survival elements such as exploration, hunting, crafting, building, and community construction make Durango a unique experience never before seen on mobile.
HoloGrid: Monster Battle
Remember the game of holographic chess that Chewbacca and R2-D2 play in Star Wars? This game is essentially that, made by (or at least in partnership with) the original monster designer. It's an augmented reality game, displaying the monsters on a real surface corresponding with the cards dealt. Players need to buy the physical cards in order to play the game, but the Android app is free without in-app purchases. Remember: let the Wookie win.
HoloGrid: Monster Battle is an original Next-Gen Augmented Reality gaming concept by HappyGiant featuring the Monsters of Phil Tippett. A "Hybrid" Board Game, Collectible Card Game (CCG), and Digital Game in one, it delivers to players a new type of AR gaming experience.
You must own the physical cards to play this game. To Purchase go to http://www.hologridmonsterbattle.com/shop
The Tiny Bang Story Free
We covered The Tiny Bang Story, a beautiful text-free point-and-click adventure game, way back in 2012. Here's a free version to check out if the $3 price tag is too rich for your blood.
Welcome to Tiny Planet, a gorgeous steampunk inspired world sadly devastated by a recent asteroid strike. Your mission is to help rebuild this beautiful idyll and restore it to its former glory. To do so you'll need to hunt hidden objects, solve puzzles and conquer devilish brain teasers. The Tiny Bang Story is set across five distinct chapters each with their own lovingly hand-drawn location, which combined with the enchanting music created just for this game, adds up to an immersive and crowd-pleasing experience.
VR Games
Gunjack 2: End of Shift
This week's crop of Daydream-compatible VR games has a definite standout in Gunjack 2. This space shooter comes from CCP Games, the publisher of the long-running EVE Online. The game uses a cockpit view to deliver immersive rail shooter levels with an amazing amount of polish. The story takes place in the EVE universe, from a perspective that even long-time players probably aren't familiar with. It isn't cheap: in addition to a Pixel phone and Daydream View headset, you'll need $13 to get in. At least there are no in-app purchases.
Immerse yourself in the all-new, cinematic VR world of Gunjack 2: End of Shift from CCP. Transporting you to the dangerous Outer Ring of New Eden, Gunjack 2: End of Shift is the sequel to the critically acclaimed and best-selling VR shooter set in the EVE universe. Everyone fights in New Eden. Some fight for power. Others for money. But out here, on the fringes of space, most fight simply to see another day. Far from the comforts of civilization, the vast mining rig, Kubera, is your home.
Layers of Fear: Solitude
Horror works especially well in VR thanks to the immersion factor - with your entire field of vision dedicated to the game, scary stuff just seems more scary. Layers of Fear debuted on Steam as a conventional survival horror game earlier this year, with a hook based on layered pentimento paintings. This mobile VR version uses the Daydream controller sparingly for a few interactive elements, but is otherwise a haunted house. It's $10 with no in-app purchases.
Layers of Fear: Solitude brings the psychedelic horror experience of the fan-favorite franchise, Layers of Fear, to Daydream. Completely redesigned for an optimal VR experience, the player takes on the first person perspective of a psychologically disturbed painter trying to complete his magnum opus while battling ghastly visions and a crumbling psyche. To add to his growing madness, each fully immersive VR room in the Victorian Mansion constantly changes and uncovers new horrors and torturous secrets.
Need for Speed™ No Limits VR
Android Police coverage: Need for Speed VR for Google Daydream is now live
The long-running Need for Speed series has a few Android entries, but none are so interesting as No Limits VR. This one sticks the player into the digital driver's seat, with fully-rendered interiors for some of the world's most exotic sports cars. Basic controls allow for a racing experience that blends cartoony action with a simulator perspective. It doesn't come cheap, though: the game is $15 plus optional in-app purchases.
The world’s most iconic street racing brand now brings immersive VR technology behind the wheel of the Google Daydream. Feel the ultimate thrill when you’re strapped into the driver’s seat, exploring a dynamic environment and launching yourself into an unparalleled, visceral ride. Choose your car, choose your track, and enter a new realm of white-knuckle racing reality. Win races, up your rep, and own the streets in a whole new way.
LEGO® Brickheadz Builder VR
Android Police coverage: [Update: it's gone] LEGO jumps into the virtual reality game with Brickheadz for Daydream VR
The Brickheadz toy line blends licensed big-headed figures, a la Funko's Pop Vinyl, with the buildable aspect of LEGO's famous blocks. This VR game allows players to collect and build the small sets in virtual reality. The precise nature of the building tools is impressive - something like this would be hard to do even with a mouse and keyboard - but unless you're a huge LEGO fan, there isn't a lot of depth to be found. IAP is included for extra sets.
Have fun discovering new characters and objects by solving the play formulas in the magic book. Explore building virtual LEGO models and toying with playful and crazy LEGO BrickHeadz characters, changing their looks and behaviours.
• A fun new creative LEGO play experience.
• Design your own LEGO Brickheadz characters and bring them to life.
• Play with your creations -- special combinations will unlock new characters and items.
• Build models or Free build with virtual LEGO bricks.
LEGO BrickHeadz Builder VR is free and offers no in-app purchases.
Underworld Overlord
Underworld Overlord is something of a tower defense game, wherein players take on the mantle of a dungeon master. Set traps and ready monsters for would-be heroes as they storm your lair. It's not a completely unique idea - Dungeon Keeper was doing essentially the same thing 20 years ago - and it isn't clear why VR is beneficial to a game that's played entirely from the third-person viewpoint. It costs $8 with no in-app purchases.
"Be the bad guy” in Underworld Overlord -- an innovative action/strategy game, only on Daydream. Defend your very own VR dungeon against an onslaught of so-called “heroes.” Set traps. Cast spells. Command monsters. As a newly-undead Lich, protect your dungeon realm from brazen adventurers who attempt to rob your treasures and slay your precious monsters. As master of your domain, direct your monsters into the fray, place deadly traps and defenses, and cast spells that help or hinder.
Wands
As a first-person, two-player online game in which neither character moves, Wands has some interesting claim to novelty. Both players are wizards who take turns hurling spells and weaving defenses. It's an interesting idea, though without full movement controls something like this lacks a bit of urgency. The Victorian setting and atmosphere is gorgeous and fully realized. VR fans can try it out for six bucks, but with no singleplayer element, you might find the online servers a bit underpopulated.
Take on the role as a mysterious Wielder in an alternate 1880's London. Equip your wand with a wide variety of spells and battle other Wielders for fame, power and glory in the fantastic realms of The Beyond. Explore new spells and practice your skills in your secret workshop in between battles. WANDS® is a first person fully mobile VR experience that offers fast paced magic duels against other players online.
WTF Game(s) Of The Week
My Horse Prince
Android Police coverage: My Horse Prince is a weird dating simulator about an anime girl and the horse-boy she loves
The heroine of My Horse Prince is a super-special young woman born during the Year of the Horse, who can communicate with horses and perceive them as having human-like speech and faces. Or she's just insane, and she's hallucinating a boy's face on a horse to justify her bestial tendencies. The game isn't quite sure. We're sure that this oddball dating simulator is only for those who prefer their anime on the goofy and uncomfortable side.
Will you be my owner? There stands a horse with a handsome human face. Before you know it, you agree to start training him... Is this a dream or a nightmare? Life on this strange ranch awaits...
- Items appear with time
- Tap items to get points
- Points are determined by energy level
- Talk to boost your horse's energy
- Earn the amount of points required to clear the level
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